• Secretary of State says Canada's claim to the Northwest Passage is illegitimate
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https://globalnews.ca/news/5246154/northwest-passage-canada-pompeo/ U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is calling Canada’s claim over the Northwest Passage “illegitimate” in a major speech that is being criticized for being provocative and inaccurate. Fen Hampson of Carleton University in Ottawa says Pompeo’s remark upends a gentleman’s agreement between Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan that allows the U.S. to designate the Northwest Passage an international waterway while Canada claims it as sovereign territory. Pompeo offered that characterization during a wide-ranging speech in Finland today in which he also warned against China’s increased Arctic presence, saying it threatens American security and could be harmful to the environment. Michael Byers, an Arctic expert at the University of British Columbia, says Pompeo is not only off-base about the threat posed by China, his argument is based on a false statement that t he People’s Republic is trying to build infrastructure in the Canadian Far North.
Them be fightin words.
During the Cold War, Canada established settlements, research stations, and military outposts in the far reaches of the Northern Territories in order to solidify their territorial claims and prevent the Soviet Union from expanding into northern Canada. Unbeknownst to them it would not be the Soviet Union, but the United States challenging their territorial claims, nearly 3 decades after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. What a fucking world huh.
Russia is making challenging moves into Arctic sovereignty, but look how far we've come (backwards) since we built NORAD and the DEW line together.
Reading into it, this dispute has apparently been low-key happening for decades; the US Coast Guard and US Navy want these waters for "national security", and various international shipping companies want the waters for passage. Canada maintains their sovereignty over the waters, which are in and around the Canadian territory of Nunavut and parts of the Northwestern Territories.
Come and get 'em, fucker.
Are we seriously going to ignite a conflict with our closest trading partner to score a trade route that we won't have to ask them to patrol?
Now I understand why Canada is a national security risk. They're getting in the way of Russia expansionism into the US.
Trump has a 'conversation' with Putin, Trump has a conversation with Pompeo, suddenly Pompeo says Canada is making illegitimate claims on stuff in ways that benefit Russia...
It's very strange to watch America's position on the world stage being progressively chipped away by morons who gain very little by stripping away the respect and clout of their own country. I would claim they're incompetent but that would imply they're even trying in the first place.
The queens got our back
Gonna be honest this headline sounds like it is straight out of 1820
Just when I'm about to start filling out the paperwork for enlistment too, great.
It's almost like the GOP is balls deep in Russian money or something
I think you Canadians need to burn down the white house again lol.
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